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  • A DEAR DAVID DIARY GETTING WORLDWIDE ATTENTION

    A DEAR DAVID DIARY GETTING WORLDWIDE ATTENTION

    I am completely terrified, enthralled, and perplexed by the DEAR DAVID Twitter stream being penned by New York writer Adam Ellis. He is known on Twitter as Moby_Dickhead.  And suddenly he is captivating publications all over the world..

    It began in August. He said he had a dream about a boy with half of a head.. He said his apartment in NYC was being haunted by a dead boy. . . At some point he learned that the boy’s name was David. Dear David, actually. And you could only ask him two questions. If you asked a third, he would desire to kill you.

    Adam Ellis asked a third..

    And the rest became a Twitter stream of nightmare potential.

    His cats got involved, as he

    Just last week he revealed this photograph, which he said shows Dear David staring at him from across his bedroom:

    The last update was last week. Nothing since then.

    There are currently 559,000 or so followers who have been watching the accounts of Moby Dickhead. Waiting for another enthralling update.. waiting for another photo. Another glimpse into the apartment of the haunted New York city dweller.

    And YES! Many people have said how it’s fake! It’s a fraud! It’s a hoax!
    …that’s the fun. It’s fun because even if it is a fake or fraud, the hat has not been tipped yet by Ellis. He’s going with it.. watching the worldwide attention.. And if fake, enjoying every minute. If real? He should really think about moving as soon as possible.

    This story has Slenderman potential! With the attention Dear David is getting, there are two possibilities: It’s fake and it’s a new version of promoting an amazing horror story/ or it’s real and SHOULD be made into a movie.

    Regardless of the intentions of Ellis, it’s thoroughly enjoyable.

    …and somehow is penetrating pop culture.
    The other day my son, now in the 1st grade, came home and told me about Dear David.
    The kids know. The adults do too.

    ADAM ELLIS. Stay safe.

  • STRANGER THINGS 2 looks incredible

    STRANGER THINGS 2 looks incredible

    The newest STRANGER THINGS 2 trailer hit on Friday the 13th .. amazing timing as always with the fine people at Netflix..

    The excitement over this program is incredible. Not only are people re-watching and re-binging the first season in preparation, but there is an equal amount of re-watching and analyzing of the newest trailers..

    Before discussion.. take a glance:

      [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZXOOLMJ8s]

    My initial thought: This is actually the weaker of the teasers and trailers for season 2.. Yes, I am inclined to wonder why Eleven is more androgynous  .. why she has more hair now and no one shaved it. why she is out of the upside down and eating Eggos in the normal world..

    So many questions about her. But the trailer didn’t pay much attention to her–I think on purpose. Instead we glimpsed into the post-pubescent boys and now new friends of another gender planning something, just as the world is being taken over by giant squid creatures from the upside down.

    Not viewed at all? Mike’s mom and dad. Barb..

    Forgive me before moving on, but I really hope something happens to Mike’s dad. The guy was a total buffoon, I know on purpose, but  really annoyingly so.. Perhaps the ‘Reagan Bush 84’ sign that pops up in their front yard is a showcase of how his total trust in government and Reagan fight against the Commies with star wars defense weapons is an example of how he won’t be changing any time soon..
    Fair enough.

    I want to know the other families, though as well.. We know only Mike and Will.. There are plenty of other kids in the show that I want to understand.. Maybe season 2 will there.

    It appears from this trailer that a journalist shows up to investigate. Perhaps a conspiracy journalist.. Also, the homages being paid to KARATE KID and GHOSTBUSTERS is pretty cool. During the run-up to this release STRANGERS THINGS creators also revealed a poster showing a true and amazing tribute to another amazing movie that came out in 1984: The original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET..

    Homages aside, the character development looks very in depth. At least judging from a single trailer.. Will seems to be a main character.. Perhaps Will becomes the earthly manifestation of the upside down and Eleven has defeat him? Perhaps Nancy is the key–or just true love.

    The MK ULTRA affair looks amazing in this..
    I am entirely excited.

    One interesting conundrum that STRANGER THINGS 2 may have is how audiences have come to know and love Finn Wolfhard playing Ritchie from the remake of ‘IT.’ He was foul-mouthed and funny.. a complete reversal in a sense from Mike .. but not really. STRANGER THINGS 2 may feature a more mature Mike.. not sure if they’ll go as far as genital jokes and F words.. But audiences may have grown so used to it from IT that they may expect it.

    But back to my thought about this trailer to begin with.. As much as I love it, I wish the final trailer released prior to the show’s October 27 binge-worthy debut would have been the one that premiered at Comic Con.. the amazing with that is complete with Michael Jackson’s THRILLER and ends with Boris Karloff’s horrific laughter.. for those who forget, this:

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgS2L7WPIO4]

  • IT has now made more than a half a billion dollars in global box office money It has become the…

    IT has now made more than a half a billion dollars in global box office money It has become the…

    IT has now made more than a half a billion dollars in global box office money

    It has become the highest-grossing horror movie of all time, toppling the 44-year record set by The Exorcist which grossed $441 million…

    There is some adjusting for inflation necessary..

    But what is also now necessary is seeing IT.. the must go to movie of 2017..

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  • Just getting around to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE

    Just getting around to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE

    …Late to the game on this.. It has been a tremendously long year with way too many distractions to count.

    But this weekend finally getting accustomed to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE.. It is a SYFY original based on a creepypasta, and it has a good nostalgic ‘stranger things’ type of feel to it.

    Highly recommended from the HORROR REPORT..

    The show only had a few episodes, but was greenlighted for a new season 2..

    Candle Cove (2016)
    A child psychologist (Paul Schneider) returns to his small home town to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother and a slew of other children in the 1980s, and how it is connected to a bizarre local children’s television show that aired at the same time.

    The No-End House (2017)

    A young woman named Margot Sleator (Amy Forsyth) visits the No-End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
    One part of season 1 that somewhat chilled me a bit was the tooth-child!

    Aside from just the puppets of Candle Cove, Channel Zero’s first season is inhabited by what appears to be a young boy made entirely out of teeth. “So the Tooth Child,” Antosca explained, “came to me in a nightmare. After envisioning this thing, it harkened back the ideas of childhood, of losing your teeth, of growing up, and of having recurring dreams that explored all of these things. When I proposed the idea of the creature, it struck a chord with the writers’ room. We had some fantastic artists, who also worked on Hannibal, create the suit for us and we couldn’t be happier with it. For the record, no those aren’t real teeth.”

    That is frightening an brilliant! It preys on the deepest and darkest fears I have always had as well..

    I never trusted the Tooth Fairy growing up. I always pictured him or her as some beastly and ghastly creature that stole teeth and ended up doing sordid things with them–this before I knew just how horrible humanity itself could be.

    This tooth child  would be, in my nightmare, what the tooth fairy looks like.
    Horrid.

    So happy to hear that the show will be back for me..

  • DOES ‘MOTHER!’ DESERVE THE PRAISE IT IS GETTING? (A spoiler alert with this one)

    DOES ‘MOTHER!’ DESERVE THE PRAISE IT IS GETTING? (A spoiler alert with this one)

    The horror film ‘mother!’ Is getting high praise from noble media affiliations. It is also being billed as an intellectual horror flick with a message.. religious overtones.. social justice ramifications.

    Big name star: Lawrence.
    Big name director: Aronofsky (BLACK SWAN FAME)
    Shock scene (SPOILER): Infant being eaten.

    Let’s unpack this..
    Taken purely on its surface, the film is about the horror of hosting ungrateful houseguests. Going beneath that surface, it’s about gruesome male narcissism. Ignoring its text and subtext entirely though, mother! is something more ambitious: A herald of prestige horror at a moment when we might actually need it. It’s September, the calm before the dizzying storm of awards season self-aggrandizement, when we stop thinking of movies as works of art and start thinking of them as show horses; we sacrifice the substantive power of movies in this stretch of the year, focusing instead on making predictions, playing the odds and analyzing marketing campaigns. mother!’s theatrical release falls just on the cusp of celebratory madness, three months earlier than Black Swan’s back in 2010. But both movies screened at the Venice International Film Festival, often treated as the start of the Oscar race by pundits; both movies star esteemed, in demand lead actresses, the latter Natalie Portman, the former Jennifer Lawrence.
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    VULTURE has a report on this too .. And they go deeper into the shock scene of an infant being eaten. And they really work hard but find a reason to praise it..
    From their report:
    Aronofsky is no stranger to shock value, having given us such moments as Winona Ryder stabbing herself in Black Swan, the main character giving himself a lobotomy in Pi, and the infamous “ass to ass” scene in Requiem for a Dream. But killing off a newborn, even a CGI one, is a big leap for him. Baby murder is generally off-limits in cinema, and witnessing it triggers your lizard brain’s instinct to protect young life, making even the most hardened stomach potentially churn. It perhaps fits with the environmental and religious metaphors of the film (which we’ll get to in more detail in a minute) by showing the ways in which mankind destroys that which is most precious to us. But there’s also a solid argument to be made that it was a gratuitous attempt to inflict something memorable at the cost of good taste.

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    I am a fan of the unwritten but prescribed rule of leaving graphic scenes OUT of movies involving children.. “IT” was a little much for me even during the opening sequences, but I get it. The movie had to focus on Georgie first.. but still.
    The NETFLIX hit “CLOWN” ? ,That movie went too far for me, as well.
    Call me a wimp .. But I have an idea of then type of horror film I like. Less blood. More store. Less cautionary problems for vision, but mental fear and distress..

    But mother!? This is my take, without seeing it:

    Basically it is a snuff film. Pornographic and violent. Suitable only for degenerates who pretend to be intellectuals. Absolutely horrible and vile. And that is it.

    Now before I go deeper into a category that will cause my own impunity and commentary of being a boring and tired no-name who shouldn’t even have a voice at all with my audience, let me offer a counter point that many of you may already agree with before reading. From the VULTURE article, a comment, a defense of the movie and the anti-religious message, and the baby eating scene:

    “They kill the baby, Him says to forgive them, the creepy priest says he’s not really dead, the worshippers put his carcass on an altar and ceremonially eat his flesh. Remind you of anything? The baby is Jesus, eating him is the Eucharist.
    The movie is a brief, ugly history of humanity culminating in the whole thing blowing up with the help of some fossil fuels in the basement. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry!
    I thought it was a wild trip and I didn’t even get the Mother Earth thing until later. In retrospect, I think it makes sense. But it’s also a dark portrait of religion as practiced by the masses of Him’s fans/worshippers. Him’s beautiful scripture is perverted in their hands. Sharing means stealing, love is cannabalized for cheap comfort, and supposed Christians behave in every awful way people have done and still do in a thrilling cinematic tableau worthy, as others have said, of Hieronymus Bosch. All the while, horrified mother (earth) and her house are abused and Him (God) pleads for patience.
    It must also be a dark portrait of the artist/muse dynamic. In this layer of the metaphor, Him is more of an a-hole, a wannabe God. He can’t just create. He relies on the adoration of his muse — whom he only loves for that adoration. Her love is symbolized by her heart, which calcifies in the apocalyptic furnace along with her body, leaving behind a delicate glass rock containing the force with which he will start again — this time, with a new girl. The old one’s dust, remembered and valued only for her love of Him. Not sure he’s trying to say sorry to an ex here or what, but the Great Artiste comes off as an all-consuming narcissist in this telling. 
    Don’t buy the reviews that say it’s very disturbing. I find mere trailers for ordinary horror and action films more upsetting for their blasé callousness. Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hilarious chain-smoking Adam and Eve are worth the price of admission alone.”
  • THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is right: Horror movies that show too much lack in horror

    THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is right: Horror movies that show too much lack in horror

    THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is right: Horror movies that show too much lack in horror:

    From their article:

    Horror movies function best the less their viewers know about their subjects. Think, for example, of the dapper aberration in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, or the faceless entity from David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows; both monsters in those films have defined rules of behavior, and more importantly, an absolute dearth of backstory. If you want to go classic, look no further than Pinhead (Douglas William Bradley), who lacks an origin story for the better part of two movies, until we learn that he used to be human in Hellraiser II: Hellbound’s climax. Once we’re privy to a snippet of Pinhead’s background, he loses his oomph as a villain, arguably not just for the rest of the movie but for the rest of the Hellraiser series. (And if you want to straddle the classic/contemporary line, recall how Rob Zombie’s Halloween films attempt to humanize Michael Myers take away from the character’s driving unfathomable qualities. He’s supposed to be evil without reason.)

    Could not agree more.

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  • TERROR versus HORROR

    TERROR versus HORROR

  • IT director Andy Muschietti says IT2 will finish filming in 2018

    IT director Andy Muschietti says IT2 will finish filming in 2018

    Here’s what he had to say in a recent interview with Variety. “We are doing [two films],” said Muschietti. “We’ll probably have a script for the second part in January. Ideally, we would start prep in March. Part one is only about the kids. Part two is about these characters 30 years later as adults, with flashbacks to 1989 when they were kids.” Muschietti also commented on what fan’s expectations are for the new film, and what they want to see. “Most of the people are excited about seeing a good adaptation. There are naysayers. Those tend to be the people who are fans of the miniseries rather than the fans of the book. People who read the book and got the book, they’re not crazy about the miniseries. It was a very watered-down version. It didn’t contain the darkness that the book had. They couldn’t make something for TV about a clown who eats children,” Muschietti added.
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  • NEW IT IMAGE REVEALED

    NEW IT IMAGE REVEALED

    With IT being released September 8 (two months) another image of ‘Pennywise’ has been released.. A press release with the photo: The kids in peril, the Losers’ Club, include Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs and Jeremy Ray Taylor. Javier Botet will play The Leper, and Nicholas Hamilton plays Henry Bowers. The cast also includes Owen Teague, who plays bully Patrick Hocksetter. Bill Skarsgard is our new Pennywise.

  • SYFY looking to a Tremors reboot

    SYFY looking to a Tremors reboot

    ..not sure if you’re into stale old ideas coming back after being dusted off from the top shelf. If you are! Here’s your chance to see TREMORS again ..and it will star the same star it starred then..? According to Variety, the SYFY network has picked up a pilot which could potentially spin into a series set 25 years after the 1990 flick left off. The set up sounds a little similar Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead spin off: Valentine must return to the small town of Perfection to defend it against the killer Graboid worms, but will have to “overcome age, alcphol and a delusional hero complex”. “This is the only character I’ve played that I’ve ever thought about revisiting,” Bacon told Variety. “I just got to thinking, where would this guy end up after 25 years? Andrew Miller has a fantastic take on it and we hope to create a show that will be fun and scary for fans of the movie and folks that have yet to discover it. Let’s kick some Graboid ass!” What a press-releaseish kind of statement.
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